In this Business News podcast Mark Pownall and Mark Beyer discuss Woodside's Fifo project, contrary views in the nickel sector, Jimmy Wilson's lateral move, Port Hedland's dust issue and small business.
More than 2.5 million Australian families, individuals and businesses are now going online through the National Broadband Network, the competition watchdog says.
Orbital Corporation's long-serving managing director and chief executive, Terry Stinson, has stepped aside with CFO Todd Alder appointed as his successor with immediate effect.
OPINION: The federal Liberal government's failure to deal with the issue of same-sex marriage is indicative of a party more concerned with its own internal machinations than effective governance.
Commonwealth Bank of Australia is being investigated by the corporate regulator over its alleged breach of money laundering and terrorism financing laws.
A decline in print advertising and foreign exchange fluctuations have contributed to a 2 per cent decline in media giant News Corp's full-year revenue.
The Get in the Hole Golf app allows golfers to create great golf experiences by finding similar skilled playing partners and great playing deals from over 500 golf courses in Australia and Bali.
Escalating tension between the US and North Korea has helped drive Australian shares sharply lower in early trade, following in the footsteps of international markets.
Task force pitches extra ferry routesMatilda Bay, Crown Perth, Belmont, Point Walter, Ascot Waters and Guildford are among 16 potential stops on a Perth ferry network w
Oil prices have fallen more than 1.5 per cent, as a bruising day on Wall Street bolstered fears of slowing demand amid lingering concerns over a global oversupply of crude.
The price of gold has risen for the third straight day, reaching a two-month high as another exchange of threats by the United States and North Korea prompted investors to buy bullion as a safe-haven asset.
This week's announcement that First Quantum Minerals plans to close its Ravensthorpe nickel mine, at a cost of 450 jobs, has overshadowed several positive developments in the nickel sector.
The Australian share market has run out of puff following a softening in US futures as tensions between North Korea and the United States hit investor confidence.
The Supreme Court has ordered the winding-up of the company behind a successful, well-established trucking business after a complete breakdown in relations between founding directors Ken Shepherd and Tony Maddever.
Origin Energy has flagged a second-half $1.2 billion hit to its full-year results, largely relating to an impairment in its Australia Pacific LNG interest.
The Clough-AMEC Foster Wheeler Australia joint venture has won a five-year contract to provide maintenance services at Yara International's liquid ammonia plant near Karratha, with the value of the work believed to be about $100 million.
Digital media company migme will be seeking alternative options to restructure after plans to sell its underlying business to US-based investment group Solaris Power Cells fell through.
Motorists could end up paying more for fuel if BP's proposed $1.8 billion takeover of Woolworths petrol stations goes ahead, the competition watchdog warns.
Stirfire Studios is set to join the ranks of publicly traded games companies such as Japan's Sony and Nintendo, and Electronic Arts and Activision Blizzard in the US.
Michael Fotios has quashed speculation that he intends to step down as chairman of Eastern Goldfields, following an exchange of words with journalists at Diggers & Dealers earlier this week.
Weaker demand for domestic flights has sent Virgin Australia to an annual loss but the airline says a recent improvement in conditions is set to continue.
Africa-focused lithium explorer AVZ Minerals has attracted a Chinese miner for the bulk of a $15 million capital raising, which has been priced to take advantage of a recent doubling in its share price.
Australian shares have opened higher, shrugging off the negative lead of international markets hit by concern over increased tension between the US and North Korea.
BHP Nickel West charged by battery boom new revolutionBHP Billiton has moved to approve $US43.2 million in funding to develop the first stage of the world's largest nic
Oil prices have risen per cent higher after a report shows US refineries processed record amounts of crude in the past week, eating into inventories, although a surprise jump in petrol stockpiles limited price gains.
Gold has risen to the highest in nearly two months, after North Korea said it is considering an attack on the US Pacific territory of Guam and US President Donald Trump boasted of the strength of the American nuclear arsenal.
The state government plans to prepare reforms to allow third-party access in the North West Interconnected System, the Pilbara's electricity network, ready for a cabinet decision in March 2018, in a move that would end years of impasse.
